It's probably tasteless to blame the parents, but I do. Sorry, but putting a five-year-old in all that makeup and these outfits, sexualizing a child, is completely immoral. People who abuse and exploit children have their own frighteningly complex methods of finding targets; you don't have to throw up a neon sign and make it easy for them.

I figured this Carr guy wasn't guilty as soon as I saw CNN doing a split-screen and pointing out, in topical fashion, that he "even looks like Lee Harvey Oswald". Seriously, if there isn't enough relevant information to relay without having to stoop to this level of absurd time-filling, there ain't too much meat on that particular bone.

It's probably tasteless to blame the parents, but I do. Sorry, but putting a five-year-old in all that makeup and these outfits, sexualizing a child, is completely immoral. People who abuse and exploit children have their own frighteningly complex methods of finding targets; you don't have to throw up a neon sign and make it easy for them.

So why weren't OTHER kids in these pagents murdered as well? I get your point, but one really doesn't have anything to do with the other.

Originally posted by Hogan's My DadIt's probably tasteless to blame the parents, but I do. Sorry, but putting a five-year-old in all that makeup and these outfits, sexualizing a child, is completely immoral.

I don't know about immoral, but it is definitely creepy. HBO produced a documentary on the whole child beauty pageant "phenomenon" that really worth checking out:

Its not so much that hiring hasn't picked up but that layoffs are continuing. Before hiring starts, you expect the loss of jobs to stop. Perhaps people wouldn't have the ammunition if "W" wasn't touting how things are improving.